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We are told by dry and fusty experts that fashions are 'frivolous' - that our human fancy for the new and exciting is 'meaningless'.

Not so!



GIFTS and PARCELS
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mardigras

Maybe we like new things for a good reason;  the same reason that makes us different from animal cousins, even those closest to us.



Other life-forms don't seem to get bored with eating and sleeping.  Creative humans need to do more than just idle & consume.

We want - and need - interest !



There are good reasons why that need - let's call it curiosity - is a great survival tactic:  curiosity forces us to learn new tactics, concepts and attitudes.

That continual learning.- let's call it adaptability - is what defines human beings.



Maybe we should be philosophical about new pop-songs, art, clothes-styles, and street-language.

'Cos if we didn't like them - we might still be living in trees.



Real Culture


Recent Western Musical Fads

musical memories

JUKE BOX
1950-1980

OR

Year-by-Year Jukeboxes
1940-1999




Musical Imagination

N. EUROPE

Jacqueline Du Pré plays -


... `Elgar #1' ...       ... `Elgar #2' ...       ... `Elgar #3' ...       ... `Elgar #4 (1)' ...         ... `Elgar #4 (2)' ...
 

&

S. EUROPE

ITALY - Gigliola Cinquetti Sings -


... `Speranza' ...         ... `Esuberanza' ...         ... `Innocenza' ...         ... `Nostalgia' ...         ... `Eleganza' ...
 

&

SPAIN - Concierto de Aranjuez -


... `Aprension' ...                         ... `Agresión' ...                         ... `Conciliación' ...
 

&

AMERICA


`Lullaby' - Gershwin


`National Anthem' - Paul Robeson
 

&

CHINA

China has `natural-tone' scales, while European music is now `flat' - so we hear Chinese music as `sharp'



SONG


... `Huang He Lou' ...

... `My Motherland' ...

... `Rosy Clouds' ...


... `Indonesian Boat Song' ...









... `Jasmine Flower' ...


INSTRUMENTAL

... `Strings' ...



... `Fishing' ...



... `Sakura Rain' ...






Imagination in Short Animations

some 5 min videos, some 7 - 9 mins

some best in `FULL SCREEN' - right hand box



`Hedgehog in the Fog'

`Wind Along The Coast'

`The Spate'

`Rain From Above'

`Tonnelage'

`There Once Was A Dog'

`Travels of an Ant'

`The Stone Age'

`Island'

`The Cow'

`Gone'

`Slow Bistro'

`Bolero'

`One Rat Short'

`The Lodgers'

`The Strings'

`Father And Daughter'

`Fallen Art'

`Delivery'

`Das Rad'

`Allegro Non Troppo - 1'

`Allegro Non Troppo - 2'

`Allegro Non Troppo - 3'

`Grasshoppers'

`Sed Uz Slieksna Pasacina'

`Sad Waltzer'

`Contact'

`Ape-Man & Woman'

`Flight'

`China - Monkey Trouble'

`Myth - Fire & Flood'

`L'homme aux bras ballants'

`Balance'

`Ave Maria - Vietnam'

`The Balloonist'

`Epic Sport'

`Glass Harmonica - 1'

`Glass Harmonica - 2'

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